• mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world
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      Esc :q for closing if you didn’t modify anything, :!q for closing and discarding any changes you made and:wq for closing and writing the changes to the file.

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        I was joking I know how to exit because of sudoedit it just feels like it should be on the main screen like nano or atleast ctrl+c should exit.

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            If you had read the other rssponse about basically the same thing you would know that the last time when I accidentally went into vim it didn’t show it for me and infact it probably was vim-tiny. I am sorry for sounding condesending.

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          Ctrl-C absolutely should not exit. There’s plenty of times you want it in vim to interrupt something in the editor.

          As others have said, it’s on the screen if you open vim without a file. Otherwise, it’s a tool for people that bother to learn how to use it. As someone who has been using it daily for the last 10 years, I would find it incredibly obnoxious to have a bunch of useless screen clutter telling me basic things that are easily learned.

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              Vim has an entire dedicated scripting language built right into the editor and accessible while editing.

              Even without plugins, sometimes certain things can be too slow and you want to stop them.

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          If you start vim without opening a file it’s written on the screen in the beginning. It disappears as soon as you start writing something though.